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I think I've been hit by the -950 penalty

My site<snip>used to rank in google for various myspace terms but now ranks for none except for random terms, but usually at the bottom.

The site is about 18 months old

I used to rank in top 15 for about eight or so important myspace terms but now rank for none of them. This happened a month ago and still my rankings haven't come back. The inbound links are still in place so Its not like I don't have the links required to rank.

I made a lot of changes to my site such as removing excess meta tags and cleaning up spammy pages but still no improvement.

No maybes about it, its your content, those scripts are 10 a penny on the net, ur site provides nothing new, no original quality content, if you wrote an introduction on the site, that would at least be a start.

if it happened just recently then wait a few days and see how it goes. I also do some major changes to my site recently and then i noticed my internal pages linking in the google webmaster is all gone and my ranking also gone. but know they already back a little by little. I guess maybe if we do a lot of changes on our site google might reindex it again. so why not check out at the google webmaster central.

Hmmm maybe it does have to do with the template used but I was able to rank well for many months before the penalty was applied. It seems weird that google would just suddenly apply a duplicate content penalty.